Silence pulsed around us, punctuated only by the occasional chime of my phone from different notifications.
“You just have to take my word for it. He will try to hurt you, take you away from me like he has taken everything else, but you have to believe me when I say I’m not letting you slip through my fingers. Himself and several others will try but they will fail. Nothing will harm you as long as I exist, and I cannot be sent into a void,” Grey said as his hands ran through my hair.
“When you speak with so much conviction it seems silly to be scared but I have a whole being forged from darkness, the total embodiment of evil, a guy who chose to be completely evil without much thought, against me. I can’t just not be scared, Grey. It doesn’t work like that,” I replied with a sigh.
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